-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Important: openvswitch security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:0523-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0523.html Issue date: 2016-03-30 CVE Names: CVE-2016-2074 ===================================================================== 1. Summary: An update for openvswitch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 for RHEL 7 - noarch, x86_64 3. Description: Open vSwitch provides standard network bridging functions and support for the OpenFlow protocol for remote per-flow control of traffic. Security Fix(es): * A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the OVS processing of MPLS labels. A remote attacker able to deliver a frame containing a malicious MPLS label that would be processed by OVS could trigger the flaw and use the resulting memory corruption to cause a denial of service (DoS) or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2074) Red Hat would like to thank the Open vSwitch project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Kashyap Thimmaraju and Bhargava Shastry as the original reporters. 4. Solution: For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 1318553 - CVE-2016-2074 openvswitch: MPLS buffer overflow vulnerability 6. Package List: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 for RHEL 7: Source: openvswitch-2.4.0-2.el7_2.src.rpm noarch: python-openvswitch-2.4.0-2.el7_2.noarch.rpm x86_64: openvswitch-2.4.0-2.el7_2.x86_64.rpm openvswitch-debuginfo-2.4.0-2.el7_2.x86_64.rpm These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/ 7. References: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2074 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important 8. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/ Copyright 2016 Red Hat, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iD8DBQFW+yyTXlSAg2UNWIIRAn1wAJ43zGCBuvVz7MyD8pYvbs0yZKV0cgCgkK5y KyMNZaaSRsuWNrjBEjryr0E= =xL98 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- RHSA-announce mailing list RHSA-announce@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhsa-announce